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• Commented on Dara O’Briain on homeopathy from Derren Brown Blog
  There are occasions to group things like contemporary medicine, homeopathy, crystals, acupuncture, chiropractic adjustment, and so forth together, or apart. The basic comparison between standard western medicine and 'alternative medicine' is valid when one or the other fails. As a...
• Commented on A Fortsas Hoax of 1840
  I grew up in a small town in Maryland within shot of Washington D.C. At one point myself and like 5 other people entered into a craze for the D.C. punk scene and there was one copy of a 1000...
• Commented on The Amazing Unseen Hitler Films
  If I shot or had 8mm film, I agree that Pro8 is the number one commercially available lab. I would also suggest considering the Prelinger archives if your goal is to make the footage available for open source public domain...
• Commented on We're in the Future: Scientists Warn of Robot Overlords
  I thought it was a pretty weak article. There is all this insinuation about "H.A.L."-like A.I. when there is nothing like that going on. Their best example is that of viruses that seem resistant to being eliminated- analogized as A.I....
• Commented on Prominent Black professor arrested for entering own home while Black
  If there is any steam left in this thread I would like to hear stories from those of you who claimed your civil rights in a vigorous manner from police who were in your presence and seeking to ask you...
• Commented on Death by Chocolate (no, really): worker dies in hot cocoa mixing vat
  I think a lot of the Boing Boing elite have their nerves frayed by a dispute on that Sarah Palin thread. Yeah, sorry about that one but... I don't think it is funny that someone died in an industrial accident...
• Commented on Blog about awful library books
  Also- That toe has suffered from a mild trauma which is why it was chosen to illustrate medical usage of leeches- they suck away the stagnant blood.It is a form of microsurgery to relieve venous pressure....
• Commented on Blog about awful library books
  I loved reading their blog and will go back to it again. It's true that extremely crappy books can also be extremely cool, which is why they took the time to scan and upload this marvelous collection. Sure, they are...
• Commented on Philly's Homegrown Saint
  This is in my neighborhood. Nuemann High is my polling station. Friends of mine who grew up around here tell me they remember when a flasher tried to target the high-school Catholic girls who instead of reacting with shock, chased...
• Commented on Pirate Bay trial in Stockholm: Day 3, the King Kong defense
  I don't think I can fully evaluate this trial without photos of the genre-based teenage girls handing out cookies....
• Commented on Man who set up alternate email for White House dies in plane crash
  Noen: I think to examine coincidences for patterns and use speculation to try to connect things is an intelligent exercise. Speculation is useful and necessary to try to make one's way. Maybe there is a world of CT -orists who...
• Commented on Man who set up alternate email for White House dies in plane crash
  #72 Your intellectual refutation of conspiracy theory seems rather emotional actually. In comment #57 I asserted that of course people can and do conspire, then you agreed: "Of course people conspire together" but then you got all emotional about how...
• Commented on Man who set up alternate email for White House dies in plane crash
  What's with all the emotional resistance to conspiracy theory? Of course people conspire- that is, they get together, hatch plans, and try to carry them out. Just ask yourself, has anyone in the history of the world ever planned a...
• Commented on Pure Country honky tonk concert and book
  I may have constructed in my memory that Leon worked the boards when in fact he was just a fan (with sound engineer skills) with a tape-recorder at a time when there was no proscriptive attitude to fan recording because...
• Commented on Pure Country honky tonk concert and book
  I am surprised to see these photos as Leon worked these venues as a sound-man and taped from the board. These tapes have become legendary as they display a side of country music legends that is largely unknown (or so...